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Agriculture and Agricultural Wealth
The major farm crops are rice, coconuts, corn, hemp, sugar and tobacco. About 1,000 varieties of rice, the people's staple food, are grown in the Philippines. Other agricultural products of the country are rubber, bananas, pineapples, cabbages, onions, mangoes, lanzones, legumes and camotes. Three temperate farm products - apples, grapes and wheat - have been successfully cultivated in recent years.
Among the countries of the world, the Philippines ranks first in coconut and hemp production, second in sugarcane, and fifth in tobacco.
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